Today, I came home and found my desk devoid of all paper. Turned out my mom dropped by and wanted to surprise me by cleaning up my work area. She threw away over 7 months worth of irreplaceable original sketches, notes and storylines, thinking they were worthless. My job is a full-time artist. FML
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Today, my mother-in-law visited the house while my husband and I were at work. When we returned, we discovered she'd shredded and thrown away all the scribbled on papers sprawled on our messy desks. We're graphics designers. Those were rough sketches for about 14 different clients. FML
Today, my mom went snooping through my art bin to "clean out my old drawings". She found numerous nude pieces and accused me of selling porn. My mom mistook and threw out 57 anatomy practice sketches that I worked very very hard on, and ripped up the remainder of my drawings. FML
Today, after I got home from school I went to my room to find the maid had cleaned it, also to find a bag labeled "trash" it was all the sketches and paintings I had done in art class, which is my major plan for college. FML
Today, my mother decided to "help me" by throwing out the stack of papers on my desk. Unfortunately, those were all my notes for my final exams. FML
Today, I finally finished typing up a story I had been working on for about 7 months, saved it on my computer and left to hang with friends. Came home later to find my dad had sold my laptop in order to pay his phone bill. My hard work is now gone. FML
Today, my mother yelled at me for not doing all of my homework. She got so mad, she tore up a drawing I'd spent over a week working on. That was my art homework. FML
Today, I offered to let my niece and brother stay at my apartment, as my brother was going through a rough divorce and had lost his job. After coming home from work, I found my niece had snapped all of my pencils and had ruined over ten years worth of artwork. FML
Today, I found out that my art project, the one I've been working on for the last two weeks and the first piece I felt really comfortable about turning in, was stolen out of the art cupboard. FML
Today, while sitting on a bench drawing, some guy went up to me, yelled, “YOUR ART SUCKS” and flipped my sketchpad out of my hands. I’d been working on that piece for hours and now there’s a big black pencil streak on it. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
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girlnamedkris 0
Oh my god. That's rough... Is your mom actually delusional though? Possibly mentally challenged? Did she throw away your drawings as a child? Jesus. You definitely did not deserve this one. Condolences...
tonia_fml 0
daaaaaaamn. i'm really sorry. you never throw away an artists' papers
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ToxicFuel 6
I wonder, besides all that has already been said by others, if your mom is even aware of your existence.
Jareth_fml 0
Man, I feel you. Did you go through the garbage!?
EnviousAlice 0
Wow, that is horrible. I mean, that's horrible on levels I can't even imagine. Why would she do that? -sigh- There really should just be a category called "Mom."
Anu_Ra 0
Artists are messy, it's a part of art. I dunno, part of me just wants to scream out "YOUR MOTHER IS DUMB" But I just can't assume that she would know such things unless she herself is also an artist. lol
FreedomFirst 0
That was really presumptive of her. I hope you let her know what a rotten thing she did. I hate people who "clean up" for you. Why can't they admit to themselves that they're not actually helping, just being controlling and self-centered?
phoenixfyre6967 0
Ugh, my mom tries to do that to me all the time, except im not professional. If I have a sketch with the blank side up, or if its in a stack of paper, supposedly its trash
PureGold 0
What the **** is wrong with your mom that she thinks she could just walk into your house and throw away everything on your desk?! I can't even imagine how stupid you'd have to be to think that's okay, especially if she knows you're an artist. Ever since I was little, every time someone wanted to clean my room (grandma, mom, housekeepers, etc..) I've told them they can't throw away ANY papers, boxes, anything without asking first. And if they complained about it not being possible to clean that way, I would tell them to just not do it then. There are few things worse than that feeling of losing any of your hard work or important items without a trace, and knowing it would have been avoided if someone used their brain. I'm soooo very, truly sorry. This makes me want to cry :'(.
LSeb 0
Is your mother mentally challenged? I would seriously ask her to go see a professional.
Topguy 0
Wow I feel reeeeeeally bad for you
pernicious_pink 12
Seriously?! That is SO NOT COOL!!!